{"id":143,"date":"2017-04-01T21:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/?p=143"},"modified":"2017-04-01T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:10:56","slug":"retiro-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buen Retiro Park is a large (1.4 km<sup>2<\/sup>) and popular park at the edge of Madrid&#8217;s city center, very close to the Puerta de Alcal\u00e1 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/museo-del-prado\/\">Prado Museum<\/a>. This magnificent park, filled with beautiful sculptures and monuments, galleries, peaceful lakes and ponds is also host to a variety of events. It is one of Madrid&#8217;s main attractions.<\/p>\n<p>The park belonged to the Spanish Monarchy until the late 19th century, when it became a public park. Countless statues, fountains and commemorative monuments make the park an open-air sculpture museum.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"extended\">In 1505, at the time of Isabella I, the Jeronimos monastery was moved from an unsuitable location elsewhere to the present site of San Jeronimo el Real Church, and a new monastery was built in Isabelline Gothic style. The royal family had a retreat built as part of the church. The gardens were extended in the 1620s, when Gaspar de Guzm\u00e1n, Count-Duke of Olivares, Philip IV&#8217;s powerful favourite, gave the king several tracts of land in the vicinity for the Court&#8217;s recreational use.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1630s, under the supervision of architects Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Alonso Carbonell, several buildings were erected in great haste, two of which are still standing: the &#8220;Cas\u00f3n del Buen Retiro&#8221; which served as a ballroom, and the &#8220;Sal\u00f3n de Reinos&#8221; (Hall of Kingdoms), its wall decorated with paintings by Vel\u00e1zquez and Zurbar\u00e1n and frescoes by Luca Giordano.<\/p>\n<p>The Buen Retiro Palace was used until the era of Charles III. Most of the palace was destroyed during the Peninsular War (1807\u20131814). The gardens eventually passed to public ownership in 1868, at the time of the overthrow of Queen Isabella.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fact\"><\/div><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> Among the many rose bushes of the Rosaleda rose garden stands the Fountain of the Fallen Angel, erected in 1922, whose main sculpture El Angel Ca\u00eddo (at the top) is a work by Ricardo Bellver (1845\u20131924) inspired by a passage from John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost, represents Lucifer falling from Heaven. It is claimed that this statue is the only known public monument of Satan.<\/div>\n[\/div]<a class=\"keep-reading\">Read more<\/a>\n<h2>Getting here:<\/h2>\n<p>Metro: <strong>L1<\/strong> (Atocha), <strong>L2<\/strong> (Retiro), <strong>L9<\/strong> (Ibiza)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buen Retiro Park is a large (1.4 km2) and popular park at the edge of Madrid&#8217;s city center, very [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[16,11],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro) - Madrid City Explorers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro) - Madrid City Explorers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Buen Retiro Park is a large (1.4 km2) and popular park at the edge of Madrid&#8217;s city center, very [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Madrid City Explorers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-01T21:28:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-01T22:10:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/base\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Pond-at-Retiro-park.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"City Explorers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"City Explorers\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/\",\"name\":\"Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro) - Madrid City Explorers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/base\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Pond-at-Retiro-park.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-01T21:28:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-01T22:10:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/#\/schema\/person\/9ba1cebfa50b2661f80f5b262f0721b2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/base\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Pond-at-Retiro-park.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/base\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/Pond-at-Retiro-park.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1200,\"caption\":\"Iconic statue and pond at Retiro park, Madrid\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/retiro-park\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Madrid City Explorers\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Places\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/resabi.com\/explorer\/madrid\/s\/places\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Parks &amp; 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